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Internal Medicine Alert - Full June 29, 2014 Issue in PDF
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Primary Care Reports - Full July 2014 Issue in PDF
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Hyperlipidemia and Management
The recently published ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of hyperlipidemia have elicited considerable controversy, particularly for the movement away from targeting LDL levels and for the perceived raising of the indications for statin therapy. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full June 1, 2014 Issue in PDF
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Neurology Alert - Full July 2014 Issue in PDF
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Hospital Medicine Alert - Full July 2014 Issue in PDF
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Critical Care Alert - Full July 2014 Issue in PDF
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Strategies to Improve Opioid Prescribing
How do you deal with patients who request parenteral opioids for exacerbation of chronic pain and then want refills of their potent analgesics on discharge? If you are like me, painfully, often with frustration and hostility; this issue should therefore be of interest. J. Stephan Stapczynski, MD, Editor -
Invasive or Conservative Strategy in Diabetics with ACS?
Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of developing acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Furthermore, after hospitalization with ACS, patients with DM are at increased risk of suffering repeat hospitalization for ACS. -
Meta-analysis of All Randomized Trials Supports the Benefits of Intravenous Thrombolysis for All Patients Up to 6 Hours
The recently published IST-3 trial has stimulated great interest in the expanded use of intravenous thrombolysis (IV rtPA). Wardlaw and colleagues assessed all of the evidence from published randomized trials for IV rtPA in acute ischemic stroke using a meta-analysis.